Job Interview Questions

By JI, February 19, 2010

Job interviews can be in three types, categorized by the structure of job interview questions. There are structured interviews, non-structured interviews and semi-structured interviews. Most common of them and most suitable type for the job interview is semi-structured type. The idea here is starting the interview with more general questions that will be offered to every candidate and later when the discussion develops interviewer may tend to ask unique questions about the candidate.

In early parts of a job interview, it’s very common that the candidate is asked open questions where the candidate has to describe about themselves. The intention of the interviewer may be to understand the background of the candidate and get some understanding of his skill profile. Candidate may be requested to answer job interview questions about his/her educational and professional background, experience etc. The most popular example for this kind of question is “Tell me about yourself”. These job interview questions may seem very easy to answer and less significant but actually these questions give candidate the ideal opportunity to position him/her self in a favorable place. In here, the interviewer is not just asking about details of the candidate but he’s measuring how suitable the candidate is for the particular job. Hence special concentration must be given from the candidate’s side not to rush through his or her details but relate this information to the given job.

The final stage of job interview questions may tend to be unique for the candidate. Interviewer may ask questions about special points he picked up from the profile of the candidate and questions that need little thinking from the candidate’s side. It’s common in this stage that candidate may be asked questions he or she may not want to answer, such as questions about weaknesses, poor performance records etc. Most of them are hypothetical questions (What would you do if) where the candidate is forced to think in behavioral questions where candidate is asked to describe how he uses his experiences to tackle a given problem.

STAR approach for answering tough job interview questions is one of the recommended and useful methods. “S” stands for describing the Situation and setting the background of the problem he faced in the past.”T” is for The Task; here the candidate may describe the task he was assigned to. “A” stands for the Action, this may include a description about actions that were taken and the skills used to solve the problem. Finally “R” stands for Result, where candidate is expected to comment about the final outcome of his or hers work. For behavioral type of questions, the STAR method can be successfully employed to give powerful and compelling answers for job interview questions.

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